Vehicle-axle-nut wrench



(No Model.)

, J. HASTINGS.

VEHICLE AXLE NUT WRENCH.

No. 550,969. Patented Dec. 10, 1895.

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NITED STATES JOEL HASTINGS, OF BURKE, NEWV YORK.

VEHlCLE-AXLE-NUT WRENCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 550,969, dated December10, 1895.

Application filed August 20, 1895. Serial No. 559,917. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOEL HASTINGS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Burke, in the county of Franklin and State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful Vehicle-Axle-Nut WVrench, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in vehicle-axle-nut Wrenches.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction ofvehicle-axle-nut wrenches: and to provide a simple, inexpensive, andefficient one adapted to be readily applied to a vehicle -wheel andcapable of ready adjustment to adapt itself to the position of thespokes and the axle-nut.

The invention consists in the constructio and novel combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of an axle-nut wrenchconstructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a verticalsectional view showing the same applied to a Wheel and nut. Fig. 3 is anenlarged detail longitudinal vertical section through one end of theresilient bar and its metal clip.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in theseveral figures of the drawings.

1 designates a resilient bar carrying at its center an adjustablenut-receiving socket 2 and having at its ends adjustable spoke-engagingrods 3 and 4, adapted to connect the ends of the bar to twooppositely-disposed spokes 5 of a wheel 6, whereby the latter may beemployed as a lever for unscrewing the axle-nut 7, which is receivedwithin the socket 2. Each spoke-engaging rod is adjustable to enable itto properly engage a spoke, and its shank portion passes through aperforation in the extremity of said bar and also through aligningperforations in a metal clip 8, embracing such extremity of the bar andcapable of a slight sliding movement thereon. In rear of the bar 1. eachrod is provided with a handle 9 and a set-screw 10, which passesthrough. a threaded perforation in the end of ping or displacement.

the clip 8, bears against the extremity of the bar 1, and serves whenscrewed inward to draw outward upon the clip 8 and bind the shank of thespoke-engaging rod against slip- By this construction the spoke-engagingrods maybe caused to project inward from the bar to a greater or lessextent.

The rod 3 is provided with a hook 11, adapted to engage a spoke andformed integral with the rod and arranged at the inner end thereof. Theother rod 4 has mounted on it adjacent to its inner end a pivotedapproximately semicircular catch 12, adapted, after the wrench has beenplaced in position, to be swung around the adjacent spoke to confine therod 4 to the same. The wrench may be readily detached by swinging thepivoted catch out of engagement with the spoke. WVhen the pivoted catchis in engagement with the spoke, its outer free end is arranged adjacentto the end of the rod.

The nut-receiving socket 2 is rectangular, its outer end is closed, andits inner end is open to receive the nut, and it is provided at oppositesides with slots 14, through which passes the bar 1.

It will be seen that the Wrench is simple and inexpensive inconstruction, that it iscapable of adjustment to fit a wheel, and thatit will enable an axle-nut to be readily removed.

Ghanges in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction maybe resorted to Without departing from the principle or sacrificing anyof the advantages of this invention.

WVhat I claim is- 1. A wrench comprising a bar provided at its ends withperforations, a nut-receiving socket mounted on the bar intermediate ofthe ends thereof, rods passing through the perforations vided with ahook, a substantially semi-cirmy 'own lhave hereto affixed. my signaturein cular catch pivotally secured to the other rod the presence of twoWitnesses. adjacent to the inner end thereof and adapted to receive andconfine the spoke between it JOEL HASTINGS. 5 and the rochand anut-receiving socket mount- "\Vitnesses ed on the bar, substantially asdescribed. JOHN G 1\/I CIIARDY,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as DAVID M. KELLY.

